The Stay-In Weather Sale: 20% off select books
Used, New, and Out of Print Books - We Buy and Sell - Powell's Books
Cart |
|  my account  |  wish list  |  help   |  800-878-7323
Hello, | Login
MENU
  • Browse
    • New Arrivals
    • Bestsellers
    • Award Winners
    • Signed Preorders
    • Signed Editions
    • Digital Audio Books
    • See All Subjects
  • Used
  • Staff Picks
    • Staff Picks
    • Picks of the Month
    • Book Club Subscriptions
    • 25 PNW Books to Read Before You Die
    • 25 Books From the 21st Century
    • 25 Memoirs to Read Before You Die
    • 25 Global Books to Read Before You Die
    • 25 Women to Read Before You Die
    • 25 Books to Read Before You Die
  • Gifts + Gift Cards
    • Gift Cards & eGift Cards
    • Powell's Souvenirs
    • Read Rise Resist Gear
    • Journals & Notebooks
    • Games
    • Socks
  • Sell Books
    • Sell Books Online
  • Blog
  • Events
  • Find A Store
McAfee Secure

Don't Miss

  • Looking Forward Sale
  • The Stay-In Weather Sale
  • Kids' Graphic Novels Sale
  • Our 2021 TBR List
  • Books That Got Us Through 2020
  • Save 20% on OBOB Books

Visit Our Stores


Emily B.: Inauguration Reading List: 10 Books for 100 Days (0 comment)
We have put together a reading list based on President-elect Biden's publicized policy goals for his first 100 days in office...
Read More»
  • Rhianna Walton: Powell's Interview: Chang-rae Lee, author of 'My Year Abroad' (0 comment)
  • Jeremy Garber: New Literature in Translation: January 2021 Edition (1 comment)

{1}
##LOC[OK]##
{1}
##LOC[OK]## ##LOC[Cancel]##
{1}
##LOC[OK]## ##LOC[Cancel]##

California's Fading Wildflowers: Lost Legacy and Biological Invasions

by Richard A. Minnich
California's Fading Wildflowers: Lost Legacy and Biological Invasions

  • Comment on this title
  • Synopses & Reviews

ISBN13: 9780520253537
ISBN10: 0520253531



All Product Details

View Larger ImageView Larger Images
$113.33
New Hardcover
Ships in 1 to 3 days
Add to Cart
Add to Wishlist
QtyStore
12Local Warehouse

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments

Early Spanish explorers in the late eighteenth century found springtime California covered with spectacular carpets of wildflowers from San Francisco to San Diego. Yet today, invading plant species have devastated this nearly forgotten botanical heritage. In this lively, vividly detailed work, Richard A. Minnich synthesizes a unique and wide-ranging array of sourcesand#151;from the historic accounts of those early explorers to the writings of early American botanists in the nineteenth century, newspaper accounts in the twentieth century, and modern ecological theoryand#151;to give the most comprehensive historical analysis available of the dramatic transformation of California's wildflower prairies. At the same time, his groundbreaking book challenges much current thinking on the subject, critically evaluating the hypothesis that perennial bunchgrasses were once a dominant feature of California's landscape and instead arguing that wildflowers filled this role. As he examines the changes in the state's landscape over the past three centuries, Minnich brings new perspectives to topics including restoration ecology, conservation, and fire management in a book that will change our of view of native California.

Review

and#8220;An important synthesis illuminating the diversity and beauty of the original herbaceous vegetation of southern California.and#8221;

Review

“Fascinating . . . . The firsthand descriptions [are] worth a peek.” San Francisco Chronicle

Review

and#8220;[Minnich] takes us on a journey from the wildflower paradise of pre-European California to the exotic grasslands of today.and#8221;

Review

and#8220;Fascinating . . . . The firsthand descriptions [are] worth a peek.and#8221;

Synopsis

"Much more than a lament for a vanishing landscape, California's Fading Wildflowers is a meticulously researched and compelling revision of the Golden State's ecological history from the pre-colonial era to the present."and#151;Louis S. Warren, editor, American Environmental History

"A wonderful achievement. . . . An incredibly rich synthesis of history, plant geography, and landscape ecology, which Richard Minnich uses to describe a placeand#151;coastal and interior Californiaand#151;that within 200 years experienced one of the most complete human-caused landscape transformations in the world."and#151;Michael Barbour, University of California, Davis


About the Author

Richard A. Minnich is Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of California, Riverside. He is author of The Biogeography of Fire in the San Bernadino Mountains of California: A Historical Survey and Land of Chamise and Pines: Historical Descriptions of Northern Baja California (both from UC Press).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Tables

Preface

1. The Golden State

2. Pre-Hispanic Herbaceous Vegetation

3. Invasion of Franciscan Annuals, Grazing, and California Pasture in the Nineteenth Century

4. A Century of Bromes and the Fading of California Wildflowers

5. Lessons from the Rose Parade

Appendix 1. Location of Franciscan campsites, Franciscan place names, and modern place names

Appendix 2. Spanish plant names for California vegetation

Appendix 3. Selected earliest botanical collections of exotic annual species in California

Appendix 4. References to wildflowers in the Los Angeles Times, The Desert Magazine, and the Riverside Press Enterprise


What Our Readers Are Saying

Be the first to share your thoughts on this title!




Product Details

ISBN:
9780520253537
Binding:
Hardcover
Publication date:
05/01/2008
Publisher:
University of California Press
Language:
English
Pages:
344
Height:
1.00IN
Width:
6.20IN
Thickness:
1.00
LCCN:
2007040978
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
2008
UPC Code:
2800520253539
Author:
Richard Minnich
Author:
Richard A. Minnich
Subject:
Wild flowers
Subject:
Biological invasions - California
Subject:
Wild flowers -- California.
Subject:
Botany-General
Subject:
Biological invasions

Ships free on qualified orders.
Add to Cart
$113.33
New Hardcover
Ships in 1 to 3 days
Add to Wishlist
QtyStore
12Local Warehouse
Used Book Alert for book Receive an email when this ISBN is available used.
{1}
##LOC[OK]##
{1}
##LOC[OK]## ##LOC[Cancel]##
{1}
##LOC[OK]## ##LOC[Cancel]##
{1}
##LOC[OK]##
{1}
##LOC[OK]## ##LOC[Cancel]##
{1}
##LOC[OK]## ##LOC[Cancel]##
{1}
##LOC[OK]##
{1}
##LOC[OK]## ##LOC[Cancel]##
{1}
##LOC[OK]## ##LOC[Cancel]##
{1}
##LOC[OK]##
{1}
##LOC[OK]## ##LOC[Cancel]##
{1}
##LOC[OK]## ##LOC[Cancel]##
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Pinterest
  • Instagram

  • Help
  • Guarantee
  • My Account
  • Careers
  • About Us
  • Security
  • Wish List
  • Partners
  • Contact Us
  • Shipping
  • Sitemap
  • © 2021 POWELLS.COM Terms

{1}
##LOC[OK]##
{1}
##LOC[OK]## ##LOC[Cancel]##
{1}
##LOC[OK]## ##LOC[Cancel]##
{1}
##LOC[OK]##
{1}
##LOC[OK]## ##LOC[Cancel]##
{1}
##LOC[OK]## ##LOC[Cancel]##
{1}
##LOC[OK]##
{1}
##LOC[OK]## ##LOC[Cancel]##
{1}
##LOC[OK]## ##LOC[Cancel]##
{1}
##LOC[OK]##
{1}
##LOC[OK]## ##LOC[Cancel]##
{1}
##LOC[OK]## ##LOC[Cancel]##